First draw is for IDN applicants (108 out of 116 applications purchased tickets)

Second draw for non-IDN applicants

Third draw for the remainder of applications that did not purchase a ticket (142)

The proceeds of $176,600 for the ticket sales will go to the following three charities:

Kiva Microfunds

Invenio

Wikimedia Foundation

The draw has not yet commenced, apparently due to a “power outage”. Official reason is a “glitch”. For a while it appears that the audio of one of the remote participants was audible through the stream.

And here’s where to watch the ICANN new gTLD lottery draw live today – either via the embedded stream below, or you can also watch it directly on Ustream or via Adobe Connect. The draw is expected to start at 4pm EST, 1pm PST which is 21:00 UTC.